Gender, slavery and law in colonial India


Title	Gender, slavery and law in colonial India
Author	Indrani Chatterjee
Publication	Oxford Univ. Pr.
Size	XII, 286p
Language	ENG
ISBN	0195659066
Topics	Slavery--India India--History--1765-1947 (Raj) Women--Social conditions--India Slavery--Law and legislation
Notes	This volume shows that slaves acquired by some ruling households were incorporated into patterns of kinship. Colonial abolitionist measures did not even try to release these slaves; they restructured ideologies of marriage and succession instead and eroded the status of slave-descended members over time.

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